The book, Avery said, is derived from Reynolds’s work as a wellness reporter for the New York Times and offers “a deeper understanding of how and why movement affects the human body” and “how much exercise we really need.” Sam Stoloff at the Francis Goldin Literary Agency sold world English rights to Quick, which is tentatively scheduled for spring 2024. Gretchen Reynolds ( The First 20 Min utes) sold her second book, Quick: The New Science of How Little Exercise We Can, Maybe, Get Away With, to Avery’s Caroline Sutton. The publisher elaborated that the book is a “what-would-you-do” tale about “the nuances of class, race, wealth, and education, centering on two best friends, one Black and one white.” Good People is slated for summer 2023. Good People spins around an incident in an upscale San Francisco neighborhood in which the police are called about the adopted Black son of a white family. Baszile, whose 2014 debut Queen Sugar was adapted into an OWN series of the same name, was represented by Kim berly Witherspoon at Inkwell Management. In a world rights agreement, Pamela Dorman, who has an eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House, bought Good People, the sophomore novel by Natalie Baszile. The publisher described the novel, set for fall 2022, as “a futuristic thriller about an Antarctic colony of global apocalypse survivors trying to reinvent civilization under the most extreme conditions imaginable.” Smith is also an Emmy-winning TV writer his forthcoming series, Class of ’09, will debut on FX in fall 2022.

Smith (the Child 44 series) was represented by Mitch Hoffman at the Aaron Priest Literary Agency. A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade away.

Scribner’s Colin Robinson preempted North American rights to Cold People by Tom Rob Smith.

A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee